Settler Memory : The Disavowal of Indigeneity and the Politics of Race in the United States Paperback / softback
by Kevin Bruyneel
Part of the Critical Indigeneities series
Paperback / softback
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Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths.
Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, however, especially in contemporary political and intellectual discourse about white supremacy, anti-Blackness, and racism in general.
In this ambitious new book, Kevin Bruyneel confronts the chronic displacement of Indigeneity in the politics and discourse around race in American political theory and culture, arguing that the ongoing influence of settler-colonialism has undermined efforts to understand Indigenous politics while also hindering conversation around race itself. By reexamining major episodes, texts, writers, and memories of the political past from the seventeenth century to the present, Bruyneel reveals the power of settler memory at work in the persistent disavowal of Indigeneity.
He also shows how Indigenous and Black intellectuals have understood ties between racism and white settler memory, even as the settler dimensions of whiteness are frequently erased in our discourse about race, whether in conflicts over Indian mascotry or the white nationalist underpinnings of Trumpism.
Envisioning a new political future, Bruyneel challenges readers to refuse settler memory and consider a third reconstruction that can meaningfully link antiracism and anticolonialism.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2021
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- ISBN:9781469665238
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication Date:30/11/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781469665238
